Some people will be turned off by the book, especially the most unreasonable parts of it, and we will have missed the opportunity to have someone more reasonable (according to me) than Eliezer and Nate write a similar book and then do a tour etc. I’m less worried about this after reading the book, because the book was good enough that it’s hard for me to imagine someone else writing a much better one.
I want to register some “perfect is the enemy of the good” complaint here? Like—if you want to say “oh person X should totally write a book about AI risk”, sure, let’s all get together and encourage person X to write a book about AI risk. (I would probably be willing to fund more of these, and I’m probably not alone in that.) But I don’t actually think there’s anyone who seems more reasonable than them according to you who’s willing to write a book. (Are you?)
Separately—I think this is the wrong model of book demand / opportunities to talk in public. I think when Superintelligence was published, there was more appetite for books like this as a result, instead of less. Similarly, I think IABIED is going to increase the appetite for books and articles and interviews by people who disagree with Eliezer and Nate, and so your hypothetical more reasonable author is more likely to get a book deal or speaking engagements as a result of IABIED increasing the temperature and salience of this issue.
I want to register some “perfect is the enemy of the good” complaint here? Like—if you want to say “oh person X should totally write a book about AI risk”, sure, let’s all get together and encourage person X to write a book about AI risk. (I would probably be willing to fund more of these, and I’m probably not alone in that.) But I don’t actually think there’s anyone who seems more reasonable than them according to you who’s willing to write a book. (Are you?)
Separately—I think this is the wrong model of book demand / opportunities to talk in public. I think when Superintelligence was published, there was more appetite for books like this as a result, instead of less. Similarly, I think IABIED is going to increase the appetite for books and articles and interviews by people who disagree with Eliezer and Nate, and so your hypothetical more reasonable author is more likely to get a book deal or speaking engagements as a result of IABIED increasing the temperature and salience of this issue.